EBS-SSD Boot AMIs For Ubuntu On Amazon EC2

The good folks at Canonical are now building Ubuntu AMIs with EBS-SSD boot volumes. In my preliminary tests, running EBS-SSD boot AMIs instead of EBS magnetic boot AMIs speeds up the instance boot time by approximately… a lot.

Did you know that Amazon includes status messages about the health of availability zones in the output of the ec2-describe-availability-zones command, the associated API call, and the AWS console? Right…

The source for ec2-conssitent-snapshot has historically been available here: ec2-consistent-snapshot on Launchpad.net using Bazaar For your convenience, it is now also available here: ec2-consistent-snapshot on GitHub using Git You are…